Word: inrushing
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...endeavored to stop the inrush of water with our hands, but too late...
...vital problem of transition between school and college still bulks large. Despite occasional flashes in the plan of reform, no vigorous constructive action has ameliorated the present crying need. Now is the time to hew out some new policy with which to deal with the inrush of next fall's Freshmen who may otherwise receive the usual laissez faire reception...
...legitimate purposes but for the illegitimate purpose of packing as many members surreptiously inside their doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government napping and turning it out on a stupid issue. I am not going to go out on any such issue...
...record-breaking enrolment is taking place in most of the colleges throughout the country, and to meet the new conditions caused by the great inrush of students, several of them are announcing changes in their curricula. The most important undergraduate change this year in Yale's reconstruction plans is the abolition of the select course of the Sheffield Scientific School and its transfer to the academic department, whose fine arts course it had duplicated...